Red Hat Virtual Central Office (VCO)

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Solution Overview

WWT has collaborated with Red Hat to build the Red Hat Virtual Central Office (VCO) solution. This solution provides a blueprint for modernizing service provider operations at the network edge via an open, software-defined infrastructure platform. It enables service providers to quickly and seamlessly deploy new capabilities for low latency and high-bandwidth application services.

The solution consists of components from the following industry leading partners:

Altiostar - virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN)

Affirmed Networks - virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

HPE - virtualized Home Subscriber Server (vHSS)

F5 - virtualized Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT)

Cumulus Networks - Linux open Network Operating System

Goals & Objectives

The purpose of the lab is to highlight the benefits of deploying mobility services at the edge of a mobile network that's built on hyper-converged infrastructure.

The user is able to get a first hand experience of a 4G LTE mobile network architecture based on 3GPP CUPS. CUPS allows for reducing latency on application services, e.g. by selecting user plane nodes which are closer to the radio network or more appropriate for the intended mobile device usage type without increasing the number of control plane nodes.

Users can login to the various network elements in the topology to review subscriber session information and walk through the call flow sequence when a mobile device connects to a 4G LTE network.